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The scenario
A company that sells products online. Its website, which has been somewhat of a success, has been redesigned and augmented several times but has remained as basically an ‘information’ site that lists the company’s wares and provides detailed information on each item.
Currently, if a customer visits the website they can submit a form to ask questions but they cannot buy a pan online. To purchase an item they must either visit or telephone the company. One advantage of this is that the existing web server is seen as a ‘non-critical’ application, in that if it breaks down the only loss will be of information to users for a short period.
The company now wants to explore the possibility of upgrading the website so that visitors can actually purchase pots and pans online. This would reduce the number of telephone calls that the company must handle each day.
The company also wants to explore the possible integration of the website with other applications that already exist. There is a ‘pan stock’ application that uses a database to keep track of how many pans are in stock and the price of each pan.
However, the company remains cautious and wants to see a small pilot demonstration of the techniques that would be involved. For this purpose, it has had a small set of static web pages taken from the current website and combined with a set of empty ‘placeholder’ pages for the new purchasing facility that is to be added to the website.